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Large Font on Retina Displays Disappears unless I make it much much smaller

Discussion in 'UGUI & TextMesh Pro' started by epit, Sep 16, 2015.

  1. epit

    epit

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    I had started working on our app using a non-retina iPad. Everything worked great. We had several large UGUI text components with 230 point text in them. When I tried running it on a Retina iPad, no text showed up.After a lot of trial and error, I discovered that by changing the font size to exactly 190, the text would show on the retina device. If I go to 191 or higher, the text disappears (but it shows on the non-retina iPad). However, the text is too small for the UI design that we already have in place. Is there an explanation for this seemingly weird retina-display related font size issue?
     
    epit, Sep 16, 2015
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  2. geff

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    Hi, same problem. All text whose font is more than 50 disappear on iPad Air 2 since Unity 5.2.
    No problem on my Nexus 9.

    Rectransform on my canvas, scale is very small 0.05 :

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    Last edited: Sep 24, 2015
    geff, Sep 24, 2015
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  3. karl_jones

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    Hi,
    Could you please file a bug report?
     
    karl_jones, Sep 24, 2015
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  4. geff

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    geff, Sep 28, 2015
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  5. karl_jones

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    Hi,

    I'm afraid iOS is not my area so cant check. I recall there being discussion about retina issues but I dont know if this is the problem you are having. The workaround was:
    Workaround is to Get Info on Unity in Finder, and check "Open in Low Resolution".

    QA will be able to provide much better help when they examine the ticket.
     
    karl_jones, Sep 28, 2015
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  6. epit

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    I was under deadline, so I found a solution by using TextMeshPro for my large text elements and that fixed the problem for me. It also allowed me to truly center my text vertically in it's container, which I was also having an issue with.

     
    epit, Oct 16, 2015
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